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backshore
English
Etymology
back +? shore
Noun
backshore (usually uncountable, plural backshores)
- (geology) An upper shore zone above high-tide.
Synonyms
- backbeach, backshore beach
Coordinate terms
- foreshore
Anagrams
- horseback
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shore
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shô, IPA(key): /???/
- (General American) enPR: shôr, IPA(key): /???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sh?r?, IPA(key): /?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: sure (accents with the pour–poor merger); Shaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English schore, from Old English *s?ora (attested as s?or- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English s?ieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.
Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
Noun
shore (plural shores)
- Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
- (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
Usage notes
- Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.
- Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.
- River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.
Hyponyms
- (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast
Derived terms
Related terms
- longshoreman
- shorage
Translations
Verb
shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)
- (obsolete) To set on shore.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel, sweep”). It is of uncertain origin, but has been found in some other Germanic languages. Compare Old Norse skorða (“piece of timber set up as a support”).
Noun
shore (plural shores)
- A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.
- The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.
Verb
shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)
- (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
- (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).
- My family shored me up after I failed the GED.
- The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.
Synonyms
- (without up): reinforce, strengthen, support, buttress
- (with up): prop up, bolster
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
See shear.
Verb
shore
- simple past tense of shear
Etymology 4
Noun
shore (plural shores)
- (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.
Etymology 5
Perhaps a form of score, or another form of sure, equivalent to assure.
Verb
shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)
- (Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.
- (Scotland, archaic) To offer.
References
Anagrams
- H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer
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